The St. Louis Board of Aldermen are off for a month-long spring break starting today. Like many a legislative body (or college students) before them, they left a lot of business until the last minute. Here's a look at some of the business they took care of today.

There’s now another hole in the urban fabric of downtown St. Louis. Piles of rubble are all that remains at the corner of 11th and Spruce streets, where the Cupples 7 building once stood.

The 113-year-old brick warehouse was part of the Cupples Station Historic District, a massive complex of 20 buildings that served as the logistics hub for the city in the early 20th century. Today, just eight remain.

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: Last week, Mayor Francis Slay delivered what may have first seemed like bad news to local preservationists: Building Commissioner Frank Oswald issued an emergency demolition permit for the old Graham Paper Co. warehouse at Cupples Station known as “Cupples 7.”

According to Slay’s press release, the headache ball will be out in one month if no developer steps forward to stabilize the building.